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West Africa

Mali
Gold Rush in African Far West

The strong boost in gold prices in recent months has triggered a scramble for gold licenses in Mali. North Atlantic [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.06.2002

Guinea
Trivalence Corners Diamond Production

When the Hymex Diamond Corporation wound up its business a few months ago, Trivalence Mining Corporation became the lone foreign [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.06.2002

Ghana
Consultants Lining up For EU Contracts

Mining experts are rubbing their hands these days because the European Union's 15 member nations agreed in an in-house document [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.06.2002

Burkina Faso
Axmin and High River Take Center Stage

In persuading its neighbor High River Gold Mines Ltd. to team up with it, Axmin Inc. has cast the two [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.06.2002

Ghana
Bogoso Hires Prestea's Staff

Following an agreement with Ghana's government and Prestea Gold Resources [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.06.2002

Liberia
Mano Worried Over Rebel Advances

Mano River Resources, which is poised to begin a feasibility [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.06.2002

Australia, Mauritania
FUSION OIL & GAS

FUSION OIL & GAS, an Australian company that made the [...]

Subscribers only 30.05.2002

West Africa
Amerada Hess Bolsters Position

After buying Triton last year and gaining sway in Equatorial Guinea, the U.S. firm Amerada Hess has snapped up three of Fusion Oil's licenses in West Africa.

Subscribers only Energy 28.05.2002

Nigeria
NNPC Debt Boon to US Firms

A recent ruling that NNPC must use its own money in its dealings with foreign companies has put it into overdrive to raise cash. The first to profit have been Exxon and Phillips, which have recuperated licenses they previously refused to operate.

Subscribers only Energy 28.05.2002

Nigeria
Obasanjo vs Etete 2nd Round

The campaign by former Nigerian oil minister Dan Etete to recover OPL 245 has taken a highly political turn and triggered a counter-attack by the president.

Subscribers only Energy 28.05.2002

Nigeria
NNPC Wins Case in Swiss Court

After four years of litigation with an American company NNPC has won a case before a court in Geneva that could have proved very costly had the verdict gone the other way.

Subscribers only Energy 28.05.2002

Guinea
State of Emergency

The country has been hit by a steep power shortage as the government continues to hold out against privatising Electricite [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.05.2002

Mauritania
ONE Fails in SOMELEC Grab

Morocco's state-owned ONE company killed the clock in the hope of picking up Mauritania's SOMELEC cheaply. But the manoeuvre backfired.

Subscribers only Energy 28.05.2002

Nigeria
Refineries for the States

The government's invitation to private companies early this year to bid to operate oil refineries (AEI 304) quickly became a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.05.2002

Nigeria
Baker Hugues Unit Sold Off?

Africa Energy Intelligence understands that the Nigerian affiliate of Baker [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.05.2002

Nigeria
Two New LNG Projects

ChevronTexaco and ConocoPhillips have submitted two new projects for LNG [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.05.2002

Equatorial Guinea
New Discovery on Block G

Amerada Hess has made a new discovery on the Elon [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.05.2002

Senegal
Back to Square One for Senelec

After negotiating the sale of Senelec with the U.S. group [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.05.2002

Ivory Coast
New Dam Program Takes Shape

Agence Francaise de Developpement is going to finance the restoration [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.05.2002

Nigeria | NNPC
New Accounts Opened

Following a ruling by Nigeria's Supreme Court that has forced [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.05.2002

Nigeria | PHILLIPS CONSULTING
Inquiry into Nigerian Joint Ventures

Phillips Consulting, a Nigerian firm headed by Foluso Phillips, a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.05.2002

Sierra Leone | TGS NOPEC
Organizing a Call to Tender

Norway's TGS Nopec has not only been mandated to put [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.05.2002

Nigeria | LALIVE & PARTNERS
Advising NNPC

In the court case that pitted it for four years [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.05.2002

Sierra Leone
Golden Prospect Turns Threat to Advantage

Compelled to resume mining on its inactive Sonfon concession following the cease-fire agreement on April 18, the British firm Golden [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.05.2002

Ghana
Birim Follows on Red Back's Heels

Canada's Birim Goldfields Inc. is poised to clear a crucial hurdle in the race to develop gold resources in ?productive [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.05.2002

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